Grades 7-8

Is it a meteorite? Learn about types of meteorites and how you can identify them!

Learners create a Micro:bit step counter using Make Code.

Learners enhance their understanding of encryption and decryption to protect personal information and develop critical thinking skills by using different encryption tools to create and send coded messages.

Learners develop computational thinking skills and global competencies as they collaboratively work together to design and build a structure that will protect the last Truffula seed (from the story ‘The Lorax’).

Learners explore some foundational computer programming concepts and develop computational thinks skills by participating in three weeks of hands-on coding activities, via Scratch, for one-hour sessions, where each session builds off the previous session.

Learners build off the skills they developed in the (Scratch) Coding Club, developed by McGill University, and further expand some foundational computer programming concepts and further develop computational thinking skills.

Welcome to the science behind computer communication! Learners will explore the basics of binary, learn how to count in binary and how binary is used to encode different kinds of information in computers, through a variety of activities.

Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a provocation for learning, learners explore real-world robots that help protect the environment and are challenged to design a robot to clean-up trash from the schoolyard or a local  outdoor space. This activity can be done in-person or in a virtual setting.

Students will learn some foundational programming concepts and develop computational thinking skills through several screen-free activities.

Learners will use their knowledge of AI to ponder and form questions about the future of AI in the workplace and what role citizens could play in its development for daily use.

Learners will practice and further develop their human emotion and facial recognition skills, similar to how AI programs learn.

Learners will use their knowledge of AI and how facial filters work to explore the pros and cons of this rapidly advancing technology.

The goal of this activity is for students to program a mouse to get from the starting position to the cheese wedges without going on squares occupied by cats or mouse traps.

This workshop will teach students how vaccines work and the importance of vaccines to human public health.

Students will learn some foundational programming concepts and develop computational thinking skills through several screen-free activities.